Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
THOMAS HARDYYou concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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